After visiting the festival in 2013 with the short film Wandering Alien Detective Robin (which you can view here), beginning director Lisa Takeba returned...
Category - Japanese Reviews
A young Japanese student and part-time call-girl gets in a pickle when her fiancé, Noriaki ( Ryo Kase, whom I'm a big fan of )...
In the Tiger Award Competition of this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam, one of the 3 winners, which also includes Lee Seo-Jin's debut...
Starting the day at 9:15 AM with the screening of the newest Takashi Miike film: pure stupidity or pure genious. Still a bit tired with a long day ahead of...
The Brain Man (original title Nô Otoko) is a film adaptation of the novel by Shudô Urio with the same title that was published in 2000. Director Tokiyuki...
Japan, 1915, the northern island of Hokkaidō. In the midst of the cold harsh winter, disaster strikes when a giant bear attacks: killing the man instantly, but...
Elevator to the gallows, original title Shikeidai no erebêtâ, is a remake of the noirish French film Ascenseur pour l'échafaud from 1958. As with most remakes...
Aku no Kyôten, aka Lesson of Evil, is a pure Takashi Miike film. If you have seen more of Miike, you kind of know what to expect but the man does jump from...